Users Administration

[jorgebravoc]

The new Elxis is super awesome ! I love it, but of course this is question-answer time.

How can I get an Author Level user to submit content, I know there is no frontend submission but the Author Group has a access level 30 and according to the footnote in the user group administration page there is a minimun of access level 70 to log in into the backend (administration console).... so if not in the frontend and can't get in to the backend, how can a user (Author) post an article? I created a new user group with Access Level 30 just like Author the user inside that group also cannot log in to the backend.

So, the reason I'm trying to test this out is to see if Elxis is able to divide the content submited by different groups of users, for example: 

Group A has 4 users, they create articles and they have 1 Supervisor (Publisher) that is responsible for checking the content the user of this group submit - meaning access ONLY to the content submitted by members of this group - and then approve them.

Group B has 3 users, they create articles and they have 2 Supervisors (Publisher) that are responsible for checking the content the users of this group submit - meaning access ONLY to the content submitted by members of this group - and then approve them.

A General Manager (Manager) is able to access to all the content created by groups A and B for higher rank supervision.

Are this scenarios possible in the new Elxis?? This is very important as a CMS should be able to isolate certain articles created by certain users for an specific publisher to approve in order to have many publishers in charge of different groups of users without having a botteneck for approvals.

Thank you

[datahell]

Elxis access system is very flexible, it can easily support what you need. Access to the backend section is hardcoded limited to a minimum level of 70 (100 if security level is set to "insane").
So, none bellow this level can access backend, period.
Each user has his access level (0-100) for which Elxis ACL generates 2 other inner access level values, the low and the exact levels (0-100000). Elxis allows you to provide 2 users, or 2 groups the same access level but different access! You can even provide access per user! Bellow you can see "Golden" and Silver" members sharing the same access level but different exact level. More will be available in the official documentation.

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gid     level   lowlevel    exactlevel  groupname
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1       100     100000      100001      Administrators
2        70      70000       70002          Managers
3        50      50000       50003              Authors
4        10      10000       10004                  Golden members
5        10      10000       10005                  Silver members
6         2       2000        2006                      Users
7         1       1000        1007                          External users
8         0          0           8                              Guests
Now, how your authors will post articles from frontend? As we have said this does not yet supported as a built-in feature.
But this does not mean that it can not be done by a third party extension...
A small component that loads the editor and saves the article will do the job just fine. Off course the editor needs attention as it is also able to handle files and plugins.
So, either you need a third party extension that can do what you need to wait till we implement this feature in the future... Sorry.

[jorgebravoc]

Alright, I´ll just wait until you guys develop a way to allow Authors create articles without having to give them a high level access 70. If you need any input on how to manage the content users create and how they interact with their higher levels please let me know, I am a web designer and I had the chance to design for a CMS built on .net (not my choice) and I designed the users interaction as the developers needed a little help in this topic. (I have a BA degree in Mass Communications)

Thank you